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Down Beat is an American magazine devoted to "jazz, blues and beyond" to indicate its expansion beyond the jazz realm that it exclusively covered in previous years. The publication was established in 1934 in Chicago, Illinois. It is named after the "downbeat" in music also called the "one beat" or the first beat of a musical measure.

Down Beat publishes results of annual surveys of both its readers and critics in a variety of categories. The Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame includes winners from both the readers and critics poll. The results of the readers' poll are published in the December issue, those of the critics' poll in the August issue.

Well known features of Down Beat magazine include its "Reviews" section where jazz critics, using a '1-Star to 5-Star' maximum rating system, rate the latest musical recordings, vintage recordings, and books; articles on individual musicians and music forms; and its famous "Blindfold Test" column, in a which a musician listens to records by other artists, tries to guess who they are, and rates them using the 5-star maximum rating system. Musicians that get 50% right on the "Blindfold Test" do better than average.

Down Beat went to a monthly schedule in April 1979, the first time since 1939.

Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame

The Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame is maintained at Universal Studios' City Jazz club in Orlando, Florida. Current membership, by year, is listed in the following table. The critics' poll was not initiated until 1961, so there are only readers' poll winners before then. Although they have many members in common, the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame is separate and distinct from the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame.

Year Readers Poll Critics Poll
1952 Louis Armstrong[1]
1953 Glenn Miller[2]
1954 Stan Kenton[3]
1955 Charlie Parker[4]
1956 Duke Ellington[5]
1957 Benny Goodman[6]
1958 Count Basie[7]
1959 Lester Young[8]
1960 Dizzy Gillespie[9]
1961 Billie Holiday[10] Coleman Hawkins
1962 Miles Davis[11] Bix Beiderbecke
1963 Thelonious Monk[12] Jelly Roll Morton
1964 Eric Dolphy[13] Art Tatum
1965 John Coltrane[14] Earl Hines
1966 Bud Powell[15] Charlie Christian
1967 Billy Strayhorn[16] Bessie Smith
1968 Wes Montgomery[17] Sidney Bechet & Fats Waller
1969 Ornette Coleman[18] Pee Wee Russell & Jack Teagarden
1970 Jimi Hendrix[19] Johnny Hodges
1971 Charles Mingus[20] Roy Eldridge & Django Reinhardt
1972 Gene Krupa[21] Clifford Brown
1973 Sonny Rollins[22] Fletcher Henderson
1974 Buddy Rich[23] Ben Webster
1975 Cannonball Adderley[24] Cecil Taylor
1976 Woody Herman King Oliver
1977 Paul Desmond Benny Carter
1978 Joe Venuti Rahsaan Roland Kirk
1979 Ella Fitzgerald Lennie Tristano
1980 Dexter Gordon Max Roach
1981 Art Blakey Bill Evans
1982 Art Pepper Fats Navarro
1983 Stéphane Grappelli Albert Ayler
1984 Oscar Peterson Sun Ra
1985 Sarah Vaughan Zoot Sims
1986 Stan Getz Gil Evans
1987 Lionel Hampton Johnny Dodds, Thad Jones, Teddy Wilson
1988 Jaco Pastorius Kenny Clarke
1989 Woody Shaw Chet Baker
1990 Red Rodney Mary Lou Williams
1991 Lee Morgan John Carter
1992 Maynard Ferguson James P. Johnson
1993 Gerry Mulligan Edward Blackwell
1994 Dave Brubeck Frank Zappa
1995 J. J. Johnson Julius Hemphill
1996 Horace Silver Artie Shaw
1997 Nat King Cole Tony Williams
1998 Frank Sinatra Elvin Jones
1999 Milt Jackson Betty Carter
2000 Clark Terry Lester Bowie
2001 Joe Henderson Milt Hinton
2002 Antonio Carlos Jobim John Lewis
2003 Ray Brown Wayne Shorter
2004 McCoy Tyner Roy Haynes
2005 Herbie Hancock Steve Lacy
2006 Jimmy Smith Jackie McLean
2007 Michael Brecker Andrew Hill

Down Beat Jazz Album of the Year

An essential contribution of the critics' and readers' polls are the selections for "Jazz Album of the Year", listing the dozen or so most popular records.
2006 critics' poll:
(1) Andrew Hill: Time Lines (Blue Note)
(2) Wayne Shorter Quartet: Beyond The Sound Barrier (Verve)
(3) Sonny Rollins: Without A Song (The 9/11 Concert) (Milestone)
2007 critics' poll:
(1) Ornette Coleman: Sound Grammar (Sound Grammar)
(2) Trio Beyond: Saudades (ECM)
(3) Sonny Rollins: Sonny, Please (Doxy)

References

  1. ^ "1952 Down Beat Readers Poll". downbeat.com. Retrieved 2008-05-13.
  2. ^ "1953 Down Beat Readers Poll". downbeat.com. Retrieved 2008-05-13.
  3. ^ "1954 Down Beat Readers Poll". downbeat.com. Retrieved 2008-05-13.
  4. ^ "1955 Down Beat Readers Poll". downbeat.com. Retrieved 2008-05-13.
  5. ^ "1956 Down Beat Readers Poll". downbeat.com. Retrieved 2008-05-13.
  6. ^ "1957 Down Beat Readers Poll". downbeat.com. Retrieved 2008-05-13.
  7. ^ "1958 Down Beat Readers Poll". downbeat.com. Retrieved 2008-05-13.
  8. ^ "1959 Down Beat Readers Poll". downbeat.com. Retrieved 2008-05-13.
  9. ^ "1960 Down Beat Readers Poll". downbeat.com. Retrieved 2008-05-13.
  10. ^ "1961 Down Beat Readers Poll". downbeat.com. Retrieved 2008-05-13.
  11. ^ "1962 Down Beat Readers Poll". downbeat.com. Retrieved 2008-05-13.
  12. ^ "1963 Down Beat Readers Poll". downbeat.com. Retrieved 2008-05-13.
  13. ^ "1964 Down Beat Readers Poll". downbeat.com. Retrieved 2008-05-13.
  14. ^ "1965 Down Beat Readers Poll". downbeat.com. Retrieved 2008-05-13.
  15. ^ "1966 Down Beat Readers Poll". downbeat.com. Retrieved 2008-05-13.
  16. ^ "1967 Down Beat Readers Poll". downbeat.com. Retrieved 2008-05-13.
  17. ^ "1968 Down Beat Readers Poll". downbeat.com. Retrieved 2008-05-13.
  18. ^ "1969 Down Beat Readers Poll". downbeat.com. Retrieved 2008-05-13.
  19. ^ "1970 Down Beat Readers Poll". downbeat.com. Retrieved 2008-05-13.
  20. ^ "1971 Down Beat Readers Poll". downbeat.com. Retrieved 2008-05-13.
  21. ^ "1972 Down Beat Readers Poll". downbeat.com. Retrieved 2008-05-13.
  22. ^ "1973 Down Beat Readers Poll". downbeat.com. Retrieved 2008-05-13.
  23. ^ "1974 Down Beat Readers Poll". downbeat.com. Retrieved 2008-05-13.
  24. ^ "1975 Down Beat Readers Poll". downbeat.com. Retrieved 2008-05-13.

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